JitterFinger's Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 04/01/07
The Jitter FingersTM website is owned and operated by Virtual Corral, LLC. ("Virtual Corral"). Your privacy is important to Virtual Corral. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personally identifiable information we gather while you are visiting the www.jitterfingers.com website, as well as ways in which we process and disseminate such information.
Jitter Fingers.com website is divided into two areas including: a) public areas any girl can visit whether or not she is a member of a Jitter Friends group; and b) private areas that are only accessible by a specific member of a Jitter Friends group.
Please note that we review our privacy practices from time to time, and that those practices (and this Privacy Policy) are, therefore, subject to change. We ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the current version of our Privacy Policy. At the top of this page, we will indicate the "Effective Date" of the most recent version of the Privacy Policy; this will allow you to determine whether the Privacy Policy has been revised since your previous visit to the jitterfingers.com site. Please note that this Privacy Policy is also incorporated into the jitterfingers.com Terms of Service. To contact Virtual Corral about privacy issues related to the jitterfingers.com site, to report a violation of this Privacy Policy or to raise any other issue, please e-mail us at feedback@jitterfingers.com
The Information We Gather
We gather two types of information about users via the jitterfingers.com site:
- (1) Non-personally identifiable information: When visitors come to jitterfingers.com home page, we aggregate information which involves the logging of the IP addresses, operating system and browser software used by each jitterfingers.com visitor. Although such information is not personally identifiable on its own, we can determine from an IP address information such as a visitor's Internet service provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity, and, as noted below under "How We Use (and Do Not Use) the Information We Gather", we may match such non-personally identifiable information to your personally identifiable information to improve your experience on our site. Any such use will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
- (2) Personally identifiable information: In to participate in jitterfingers.com beyond visiting the home page, we require that you provide us with personally identifiable information (such as your name, e-mail address and birth date). Additionally, Virtual Corral or third parties (such as our jitterfingers.com advertisers and e-commerce partners) may provide Virtual Corral with personally identifiable information about you, which as not collected on the jitterfingers.com site, and we may add such data to your membership information. jitterfingers.com may also combine information you submit in connection with certain features of the jitterfingers.com site (such as newsletters, polls or contests) with membership information you provided.
How We Use (And Do Not Use) The Information We Gather
Please take some time to get to know the different ways Virtual Corral uses the information that it gathers via the jitterfingers.com site. Please keep in mind that, while we encourage all third parties involved - including but not limited to affiliates and advertisers - to adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of jitterfingers.com visitors and members and to otherwise handle personal information in a responsible manner, we cannot and do not assume any responsibility for any actions or omissions of third parties, including the manner in which they use information received either from Virtual Corral or independently.
Non-personally Identifiable Information
- Virtual Corral uses non-personally identifiable information in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful online services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of jitterfingers.com members and visitors, and by measuring demographics and interests in connection with specific areas of the jitterfingers.com site. We provide such statistical data to our advertisers, affiliates and other current and potential business partners; for example, we inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their websites. We also use such data to create a more enjoyable experience for our visitors and members, for example, to assist in selecting content and advertisers featured on specific channels, pages and site areas based on your general likes and dislikes.
- Please note that we also may match non-personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, to your personally identifiable information in order to augment our ability to administer the site and create a more enjoyable experience for you. We will not include any such personally identifiable information in the statistical data we provide to advertising partners, unless you have consented to such disclosure or unless otherwise permitted under the Privacy Policy.
- The jitterfingers.com site contains links to other Internet websites, which may or may not be owned or operated by Virtual Corral. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites that are not owned and operated by Virtual Corral, including such sites' use of any information (such as IP number, browser type or operating system) collected when visitors to our site click through links to those sites. Even though such information might not identify you personally, we strongly encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of those sites.
Personally Identifiable Information
- Virtual Corral uses personally identifiable information as set forth herein.
- a. No Intentional Sale or Lease: Except as set forth within this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service and other published guidelines, Virtual Corral does not intentionally sell or lease personally identifiable information collected from jitterfingers.com members and visitors to unaffiliated third-party marketers without the permission of such members and visitors.
- b. Opt-In/Opt-Out Policy: When you become a jitterfingers.com member or otherwise supply Virtual Corral with personally identifiable information in connection with the jitterfingers.com site, or from time-to-time in Virtual Corral's discretion, you may be asked to indicate whether you are interested in receiving information from us about special offers in connection with the jitterfingers.com site, Virtual Corral and/or our advertisers and partners. You will also be provided with the opportunity to opt-in to receiving offers directly from our third-party advertisers or partners. If you do choose to opt-in, you will receive such communications in accordance with your "opt-in" consent. You may, of course, choose not to receive offers or other communications from us or our third-party advertisers or partners as follows:
- Upon becoming a jitterfingers.com member, you can choose to receive no communications from us. Please be aware, however, that, even under this option, you may still receive an initial member welcome message, as well as communications as appropriate to inform you of changes to the jitterfingers.com site, this Privacy Policy or other matters described below under "Administrative Matters.".
- At any time, you can follow a link provided in every newsletter or email message (except for e-commerce confirmations and other administrative emails) to unsubscribe from that particular mailing list or email service.
- At any time, you can contact us through feedback@jitterfingers.com to have your contact preference changed to "Do Not Contact Me".
- At any time, you can contact us through feedback@jitterfingers.com to opt out of having your personally identifiable information shared with our Affiliates for their direct marketing purposes.
- If you decide to contact us to change your contact preference to "Do Not Contact Me", Virtual Corral will implement this change to your jitterfingers.com profile within ten (10) business days of your request. Please be aware that your requested change will not be effective until Virtual Corral implements such change and that such requests will be implemented only in connection with your jitterfingers.com profile, and will not impact any preferences you may have made to any other site controlled, owned or operated by Virtual Corral or its affiliates. In addition, please keep in mind that even if you opt-out from receiving communications from jitterfingers.com, residual information about you will remain within Virtual Corral databases, access logs and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. The residual information will not be used for commercial purposes; however, Virtual Corral reserves the right, from time to time, to recontact former customers or users of jitterfingers.com for administrative purposes, as discussed below under "Administrative Matters", or in order to comply with applicable law, as discussed below under "Compliance With Applicable Law".
- If you opt-in to the disclosure of your personally identifiable information to third parties, and you subsequently decide that you would like to discontinue receiving offers and other promotional materials from such third parties, you may need to contact those third parties directly in order to opt-out of further communications.
- Please note that Virtual Corral reserves the right to change its opt-in/opt-out practices by modifying or updating this Privacy Policy as set forth above.
- c. Administrative Matters: Virtual Corral reserves the right to contact you in the event of a change in the jitterfingers.com Terms of Service and/or this Privacy Policy, or to notify you of other administrative matters in connection with the jitterfingers.com site and/or the Virtual Corral network (e.g. contacting you to facilitate, complete or confirm a transaction).
- d. Targeted Advertising: Virtual Corral sometimes uses individual data collected via jitterfingers.com to "target" advertising - to decide which advertisements and sponsor messages to show to which members. As an example, if Sponsor Co. wishes to display its advertising only to jitterfingers.com members aged 16, Virtual Corral uses member registration data to ensure that Sponsor Co.'s ads are displayed only to such members.
- e. Transactions With E-Commerce Partners, Vendors and Advertisers: When you provide personally identifiable financial information and other personally identifiable information to one of our jitterfingers.com e-commerce partners, vendors or advertisers, this transaction will occur in connection with the site of the e-commerce partner, vendor or advertiser, not on the jitterfingers.com site, and, as such, the financial and other personally identifiable information you provide is collected pursuant to and controlled by the privacy policy of such e-commerce partner, vendor or advertiser. Virtual Corral is not responsible for such parties' privacy policies and we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the applicable privacy policy of the e-commerce site with which you transact business or to contact the operator of such site for more information.
- Please be aware that at times, at the request of or on behalf of our jitterfingers.com e-commerce partners, vendors or advertisers, Virtual Corral may "pre-populate" forms with your personally identifiable data for your review, and, if you so choose, for submission to such jitterfingers.com e-commerce partners, vendors or advertisers; at other times, forms are pre-populated with your personally identifiable information in order to facilitate a transaction between you and Virtual Corral with no such personally identifiable information being transmitted to Virtual Corral partners, vendors or advertisers upon submission of such form. Accordingly, we encourage you to review each pre-populated form carefully before agreeing to submit your information to determine who is seeking to collect your information, and to familiarize yourself with the applicable privacy policy governing use of any personally identifiable information collected about you.
- f. Credit Card Companies and Other Vendors: We may provide to credit card companies and other vendors all personally identifiable information necessary to process and complete your online purchases and other transactions.
- g. Virtual Corral Employees, Contractors and Agents: Virtual Corral may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, such as processing of payments, operating features of the jitterfingers.com site, or hosting or maintaining our servers. These other companies may have access to your personal information as necessary to carry out their functions, but they are not permitted to share that information with any third party absent your consent.
- h. Contests, Promotions or Sweepstakes: If and when Virtual Corral sponsors contests, promotions or sweepstakes, or third parties sponsor contests, promotions or sweepstakes in conjunction with the jitterfingers.com site, either Virtual Corral or the third party will post relevant privacy information in the official rules and/or registration area for the contest, promotion or sweepstakes. That privacy information, to the extent it conflicts with this Privacy Policy, will govern that particular contest, promotion or sweepstakes.
- i. Surveys and Polls: Our surveys and polls ask for your opinions on various issues, and very often these surveys and polls are sponsored by or associated with Virtual Corral advertisers and partners. Occasionally, we may request demographic information (like zip code, age or gender). Most information obtained through surveys and polls is aggregated and used internally or shared with advertisers and partners only in the aggregated form. In the event Virtual Corral seeks your opinion in a survey or poll conducted by Virtual Corral without any association with or sponsorship by a third party, and we request personally identifiable information about you as part of such survey or poll, the use of your personally identifiable information will be governed by this Privacy Policy. In the event a poll or survey is sponsored by or associated with a Virtual Corral advertiser or partner, such advertiser or partner may seek to collect and use your information. Please review each poll and survey carefully before submitting your information to determine whether you are submitting your information to Virtual Corral or to a Virtual Corral partner or advertiser. In the event that you are submitting your information to a Virtual Corral partner or advertiser, the use of your information will not be governed by this Privacy Policy. In any event, Virtual Corral reserves the right to add your survey answers to your member portrait (so that we can provide you with content, ads and offers that we feel will be of greatest interest to you).
- j. "Email This to a Friend": The jitterfingers.com site allows you to forward certain items posted on jitterfingers.com or links to other jitterfingers.com features by email or Instant Messenger to other parties who you believe may be interested. While, due to technical restrictions, the recipient's email address or Instant Messenger screen names may be retained in our log files, we do not knowingly share it with third parties (unless the recipient has already consented to such use of her personally identifiable information).
- k. Compliance with Applicable Law. Virtual Corral may also access and disclose personally identifiable information in the event that we believe, in Virtual Corral's discretion, that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with government requests; to enforce the Terms of Service or other published guidelines; to protect Virtual Corral, its users or others; to respond to circumstances that we feel constitute an emergency; or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. Please be aware that, in connection with the foregoing, Virtual Corral may provide information about you gathered through other sites controlled, owned or operated by Virtual Corral or Virtual Corral affiliates to the extent permitted under the applicable privacy policy governing collection and use of such information.
- l. Business Transfers. We may sell or transfer assets or portions of our business as we continue to improve our product and service offerings. In such transactions, user or visitor information (whether non-personally identifiable or personally identifiable) may constitute one of the transferred business assets.
Advertising Companies
Advertising that appears in connection with the jitterfingers.com site and services is currently served by third-party advertising companies. These ads may contain cookies, pixel tags or other tracking technologies that collect information about our visitors to which we do not have access and the use of which is not governed by this Privacy Policy. These companies may use information about your visits to jitterfingers.com to assist with serving ads about goods and services of interest to you.
Children’s Privacy
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the personal information of children under the age of 13. This applies to individually identifiable information about a child that is collected online, such as full name, home address, email address, telephone number or any other information that would allow someone to identify or contact the child. The Act and Rule also cover other types of information—for example, hobbies, interests and information collected through cookies or other types of tracking mechanisms—when they are tied to individually identifiable information. It is important for you to understand this law; we encourage you to read more about COPPA. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/coppa/intro.htm
Jitter Fingers is committed to providing a safe, secure, and fun online experience for teen and tween girls who visit our site. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information collected online and to helping parents and girls have positive experiences on the Internet. Consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
When someone under the age of 13 registers on jitterfingers.com, we require a parent’s permission and will request parental contact information for verification before a child is permitted to participate in Jitter Fingers or Jitter Friends activities. The parental contact information provided is solely for the purpose of permission and will not be used for any other purpose.
Parents can revoke their consent and ask that information about their children be deleted from the site by contacting our offices by phone at (310-844-7270) or via emailstaff@jitterfingers.com To do this or to review personal information collected from children, we must verify the identity of the requesting parent. When a parent revokes consent, we will stop collecting, using, or disclosing information from that child. To respect the privacy of parents, information collected and used for the sole purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing notice is not maintained in retrievable form by the site if parental consent is not obtained after a reasonable time.
Jitter Fingers believes it is good policy not to collect more personally identifiable information from children under 13 than is necessary for them to participate in our online activities. In addition, be aware that all sites that are targeted to children under 13 are prohibited by law from collecting more information than they need.
How We Protect And Secure Your Information
We use reasonable security measures in connection with the jitterfingers.com site to protect the data that resides on jitterfingers.com servers from loss, misuse or alteration. In addition, Virtual Corral seeks to limit access to your personally identifiable information by employing password protections of those Virtual Corral electronic databases in which your information is stored, and issuing passwords to a limited number of authorized employees and agents. We cannot, however, guarantee that information supplied by users will not be accessed on our servers, or intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. If you have reason to believe that there has been any breach of the security of the jitterfingers.com site, please contact us at staff@jitterfingers.com
Please remember that security of the username and password you create when you register with the jitterfingers.com site, is your responsibility; we recommend that you do not share them with anyone. If you share your username and password, you are providing access to your personal information. You will be responsible for all uses of your registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify Virtual Corral of any unauthorized use of your username or password.
Sole Authorized Statement
This Privacy Policy is the sole authorized statement of Virtual Corral's practices with respect to the online collection of personally identifiable information via the jitterfingers.com site and the usage of such collected information. Any summaries of this Privacy Policy generated by third-party software or otherwise (for example, in connection with the "Platform for Privacy Preferences" or "P3P") will have no legal effect, are in no way binding upon Virtual Corral, will not be relied upon in substitute for this Privacy Policy, and neither supersede nor modify this Privacy Policy.
Offline Vs. Online Practices
Please note that this Privacy Policy applies solely to our online information gathering and dissemination practices in connection with the jitterfingers.com site, and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline, with the following exception: In the event Virtual Corral merges information collected about you through offline means with data about you that is collected online and is stored in our databases, the use of the merged data will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Visitors From Outside The United States
Virtual Corral and its jitterfingers.com-related servers are located in the United States. Any information you provide in registering with the jitterfingers.com site will be transferred to the United States. By visiting jitterfingers.com, you authorize this processing and use.
Questions
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to us at Feedback.